Re:China Tries to Teach Trump Economics
by DeonPenny on Saturday August 10, 2019 @04:48PM
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Well he learned protectionist policies from China and seems to be going ok. It's weird that so many westerns are adamant we are wrong in this situation.
Re:China Tries to Teach Trump Economics
by deogeo on Saturday August 10, 2019 @07:23AM
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> The Chinese, by contrast, have yet to deploy anything like the full range of tools at their disposal to offset Trump’s actions and hurt his political base.
A technically correct but very misleading sentence, given China's unapologetic protectionism: https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasbulloch/2016/10/12/prote...
But then it's par for the course to ignore that when talking of US trade policy (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-imf-worldbank-china/china...)